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The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…
The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more especially in an evil time excellently discoursed in seven very searching but sweet sermons on Revel. 14, v. 13 : wherein several weighty cases relating to death in general and to dying in Lord in particular are succinctly, solidly and satisfyingly handled / by James Durham.The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more especially in ane evil time excellently discoursed in seven very searching but sweet sermons on Revel. 14, v. 13 : wherein several weighty cases relating to death in genereal and to dieing in Lord in particular are succinctly, solidly and satisfieingly handled / by James Durham.
Glasgow? : s.n., 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
these and these only are ⟨p. 16⟩thus blessed, and this blessedness is restricted unto and entailed upon them only, and peremptorily denied to all others and they utterly excluded from it.
these and these only are ⟨p. 16⟩thus blessed, and this blessednesse is restricted unto and intailed upon them only, and peremptorly denyed to all others and they utterly excluded from it.
In prosecuting the doctrine I shall, 1. Clear the truth of this, that they are blessed, exceedingly blessed and only blessed who are dead or shall die in the Lord. 2. I shall offer two or three reasons proving that this blessedness is peculiar to them and not to any other. 3. I shall speak a little to the use and improvement of it.
In prosecuting the doctrine I shall, 1. Cleir the truth of this, that they are blessed, exceedingly blessed and only blessed who are dead or shall die in the Lord. 2. I shall offer two or three reasons proveing that this blessednesse is peculiar to them and not to any other. 3. I shall speak a litle to the use and improvement of it.
For clearing of the first, that they are exceedingly blessed that are dead or shall die in the Lord, we need to do no more but to describe happiness or blessedness, & we will find it exactly to agree in all its properties and circumstances to them that are dead or shall die in Christ; O! Sirs look not on this as a story or some airy notion, but as that which is a great reality, a thing which some of our Christian acquaintance dead in the Lord do now enjoy, and which others ere long shall enjoy, and that which by faith in him ye may all enjoy if ye prejudge not yourselves of it; there are two things necessary to, and constitutive of, true blessedness or happiness, 1. An absolute freedom from all evil, from every thing that troubles or may be the cause of trouble, and from any sinful blameable or unsuitable defect or want, for happiness cannot consist or stand with any thing of that kind. 2. A concurrence of all the good things that are necessary to complete blessedness or happiness, both which are enjoyed by all these that die in the Lord and by them only.